Low/ not good sound quality importing an AIF

I have some professionally recorded AIF files- they sound great in quicktime- when I import them into imovie they sound much lower volume wise and almost slightly tinny. Is there something I need to do to correctly import them in? Or is this just a thing with imovie 6? Thanks for any help

And I just tried Garage Band- easy to use- but.. only does 44.1. This project has to be 48

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I want to take full advantage of my hardware. However, I'm having trouble understanding what settings I need to configure. I've spent several hours reading through wikis and searching online. Ultimately, I'm trying to achieve the highest quality audio output in stereo that's possible with my setup. USB > Behringer UAC202 > RCA out > Audioengine A2
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*******EDIT*******
ALSA was the correct choice. The simple solution was to create /etc/asound.conf containing:
pcm.!default{
type rate
slave{
pcm "plughw:0,0"
rate 44100
Then change the audio output settings in mpd.conf to:
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "MPD ALSA"
device "hw:0,0"
mixer_control "PCM"
With these settings the DAC receives 44.1khz audio and no upmixing occurs. Only one application can make audio output at a time. MPD uses much less CPU.
Last edited by ioos (2012-05-24 23:34:51)

Pajaro wrote:
For good sound quality, flat response is the most important thing. Take a look at qloud, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34412, and find yourself a very good microphone.
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Ive been searching everywhere including Nokia for info and was pointed to this forum! ->
Does anyone know any specifics regarding the nokia N95's Sound Quality??
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I import using Apple losless converter. I am aware of the general manufacturing specs that allow my speakers to sound like Rice Crispies, (which is generally lame.) This being said, I move forward to my point.
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i've been looking for similar problem which i have...
i just updated Itune7.2 to Itune7.3 and all music files has been ****** up in my itune library....
then i installed 7.2 but still my music files are ******...
its sounds like can't handle bassline... which has nearly dying.. very quiet.
and high quality sound is a bit distorted. and try to play around 192kpbs-320kpbs... only bassline or low sound can't handle to catch up with high sounds.
but i found out that all happening was.. when i used my headphone sounds quality was ****. and i switched speaker (after i read this post ) it sounds all right ... and i put my headphone is back... its all sorted.
how weird! it might need a time to settle down for iTune7.2
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*speakers - logitechZ3( good work )
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